Poet’s Corner is a section of the South Transept of Westminster Abbey where only famous poets are buried and commemorated there.
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- Chaucer was buried in the poet’s corner in ____.
- Where was William Shakespeare buried? A: Stratford-upon-Avon B: Westminster Abbey C: London D: There are no records that tell us.
- ( ) was the first non-British writer for whom a bust was placed in the Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey in London. A: Washington Irving B: Nathaniel Hawthorne C: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow D: Mark Twain
- In following statements about Longfellow, which one is incorrect? A: After his death, he was buried in the Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey in London. B: He is the most popular American poet in the 19th century. C: In Longfellow’s poems, there is always a strong feeling of optimism. D: Longfellow’s poems have a great influence in America's artistic and popular culture and always quoted even by speakers not knowing who wrote them.
- Chaucer was he first English short-story teller, the first to bring the atmosphere of romantic interest and the daily work to his poetry, the first to use heroic couplet and the first to be buried with honor in the Poet’s Corner in the Westminster Abbey.